Cupertino is a larger medium-sized city located in the state of California. With a population of 50,657 people and nine constituent neighborhoods, Cupertino is the 154th largest community in California.

Cupertino is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 93.08% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Cupertino is a city of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Cupertino who work in management occupations (20.43%), computer science and math (15.86%), and architecture and engineering (11.65%).

Also of interest is that Cupertino has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Another interesting thing about Cupertino, despite not being a huge city, is that there is a relatively high proportion of people living here who are young, single, and upwardly-mobile professionals. This makes it a good choice for other relocating single professionals. Here, these young singles will find many others like themselves, with opportunities for friendships, socializing, romance, and fun.

In addition to being popular with young singles, Cupertino is also home to many people who can be described as "urban sophisticates." Urban sophisticates are educated, wealthy, executives and professionals, who have urbane tastes in books, food, and travel, whether they actually live in a big city, or choose to reside in a small town. In big or medium-sized cities, urban sophisticates tend to frequent art institutions such as opera, symphonies, ballet, live theatre, and museums.

Cupertino is a decent-sized city, yet no one gets to work using public transit, because the city has no real transit system.

Cupertino Information and Demographics

Do you have a 4-year college degree or graduate degree? If so, you may feel right at home in Cupertino. 65.36% of adults here have a 4-year degree or graduate degree, whereas the national average for all cities and towns is just 14.96%.

The per capita income in Cupertino in 2000 was $44,749, which is wealthy relative to California and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $178,996 for a family of four. However, Cupertino contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

Cupertino is an extremely ethnically-diverse city. The people who call Cupertino home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Cupertino is White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Cupertino include German, English, Irish, and Italian.

Cupertino also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 42.76%.

The languages spoken by people in Cupertino are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Cupertino is English. Other important languages spoken here include Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Other Asian languages, and Other Indic languages.